hugob00m wrote:I would be glad to explain my process to you. i started out with mostly hand-drawn pictures of Katie and scanned them into my computer. Then I divided one of my drawings into component parts... her head, her hair, her torso. her upper arm, her forearm... and so on. Then I used that as a template to get her proportions consistant, so she'll look like the same person in all the panels of a long story.
hi Boom,
i thought all this was very fascinating. i has assumed that you had
stock poses which you save and reuse.............just as i do but it never occurred to me that you divided them into components to keep the proportions the same............very clever.
hugob00m wrote:A lot of times I draw Katie and the other characters using the line tool of my Paintshop Pro software. It lets me click the cursor on one end of a line and then click the other end to make a straight line or a corner. Or I can click and drag to make a curved line. It's a lot like drawing by hand, but I can correct mistakes faster and easier.
i don't draw anything, of course, so this never occurred to me either.....i can see where it would be easier to correct mistakes on the computer than by hand.....also very interesting.
hugob00m wrote:Katie's overall shape is a combination of reality and fantasy. Her butt, thighs, and face are the closest to what you might see on a real-life woman. The waist, ribs and shoulders are impossibly small... to make her round butt and large breasts stand out more. And the lower part of the leg is elongated slightly. (I noticed that a lot of the Humorama artists did that, and it seems to make the women look sexier... as long as they don't exaggerate too much) Her hair is the color of the orange side of the Irish flag, and her skin is extremely pale so that when she blushes, or when her bottom turns red from a spanking, it'll show up more.
Most of the proportions of my male characters are based on myself (younger and thinner than I am in real life, of course!) I just took a picture of me standing against a white garage door and broke it up into the component parts, so I'd get the right ratio oi arm length and leg length to the overall height of each man. Sort of like making electronic paper dolls.
i hadn't noticed the reality part of this but i had noticed Katie's shapely
fantasy........especially when it's sticking up in the air
. you mentioned that her waist, ribs and shoulders are impossibly small to make her butt and breasts stand out more and i think most artists have to exaggerate certain things in order to get across to your viewers what you're trying to depict
. in any case, i'm glad you do it the way you do because Katie always looks really cute and appealing
. i never actually paid much attention to your males
. i like your paper dolls analogy
.
hugob00m wrote:Some people have expressed the opinion that computer art should be for the ones who can't draw by hand, and obbviously I don't agree. I can draw by hand, but I do a lot of the more repetitive stuff on the computer as a sort of short cut.
I hope that satisfied your curiosity.
i had assumed that you did much of the repetitive stuff on the computer and i agree with you............the computer just helps you be more productive even though you can draw by hand and i certainly am in favor of more production when it comes to Katie
. thanks for sharing all this with us..........i found it fascinating
. also, thanks and a tip of the hat to Sunflower for asking. phil
